List of the best Douglas Wood movies: I Surrender Dear(1948), The Big Show-Off(1945), Navy Born(1936), Do You Love Me?(1946), Sergeant Murphy(1938), Married Before Breakfast(1937), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet(1940), Maytime(1937) ... ...
Musical
USA
1948
67 Minutes
Gloria Jean David Street Don McGuire Alice Tyrrell Robert Emmett Keane Douglas Wood Regina Wallace Byron Foulger Jack Eigen Dave Garroway Peter Potter
Patty Nelson, using the name of Parry Hart, auditions for and gets the job as a band-singer with Al Tyler's orchestra. Al, of course, falls in love with her and she with him. Back in Los ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
69 Minutes
Arthur Lake Dale Evans Lionel Stander George Meeker Paul Hurst Marjorie Manners Sammy Stein Louis Adlon Douglas Wood Emmett Lynn
Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1936
70 Minutes
William Gargan Claire Dodd Douglas Fowley George Irving Dorothy Tree William Newell Addison Randall Georgia Caine Claudia Coleman Douglas Wood
After the death of one of their fellow pilots, a squadron of Navy airmen plots to keep his newborn son away from their superiors, who have decreed that the baby should be given up for adoption.
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
91 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Dick Haymes Harry James Reginald Gardiner Richard Gaines Stanley Prager B.S. Pully Chick Chandler Alma Kruger Almira Sessions Douglas Wood
teacher headmistress singer bandleader musician cheery frenetic winsome confident conservatory train nightclub dance hall big-band music power of music unrequited love change of lifestyle love triangle pursuit transformation
The woman dean of a music school undergoes a glamorous transformation after she meets a swing bandleader.
Drama
USA
1938
57 Minutes
Ronald Reagan Mary Maguire Donald Crisp Ben Hendricks Jr. William B. Davidson Max Hoffman Emmett Vogan Tracy Layne Edmund Cobb Janet Shaw Rosella Towne
A horse is offered for sale to the cavalry but is rejected as unfit for service. A cavalry private buys the horse, and trains it to be a champion racer. When he thinks it's ready, he ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Robert Young Florence Rice June Clayworth Barnett Parker Warren Hymer Helen Flint Hugh Marlowe Tom Kennedy Edgar Dearing Mary Gordon Harlan Briggs
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Biography
1940
103 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Gordon Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Ruman Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Albert Basserman Edward Norris
doctor scientist colleague wife fascinating inspiring powerful egypt germany laboratory medicine syphilis tuberculosis scientific experiments diptheria discovery rise rescue sacrifice 1880s
The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.
Musical
USA
1937
132 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy John Barrymore Herman Bing Tom Brown Lynne Carver Rafaela Ottiano Charles Judels Paul Porcasi Sig Ruman Walter Kingsford
opera singer teacher husband love interest melodramatic emotional passionate paris opera house new york city love triangle jealousy opera marriage infidelity forbidden love rivalry revenge 1930s
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.